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transitive. To strike with heavy blows or discharges of missiles; to batter, bombard. Obsolete. See also 17 to beat down at phrasal verbs to beat in…
Military. To operate against (walls, fortifications, etc.) with artillery, or in ancient times with the battering ram, with the purpose (and result)…
transitive. To assault with engines of war. Obsolete.